Extreme performance well Acer's first slim Ultrabook initial evaluation.
This summer, first proposed Ultrabook Intel concept, such notebooks less than 20 mm thick, with low-power processor, under the thin and stylish shell, notebook performance in conjunction with Tablet functionality. Ultrabook concept has sparked wide concern, the major laptop manufacturers have unveiled new products.
The afternoon of September 16, Acer's first official release in Beijing a Ultrabook notebook--Aspire S3 Hummingbird, Acer Acer Hummingbird Ultrabook laptop was previously in Germany IFA exhibition debut, ultra thin and light, metallic simple design style is going to be fascinating.
Acer Aspire S3 hummingbirds in the Windows system to achieve a revolutionary breakthrough: with only 13.1 mm thick, weighs less than 1.4 kg, with the fastest fast wake-up technology of 1.5 seconds, more than 6 hours of battery life, high performance intelligent Intel core processor and 500GB large capacity hard disk (or SSD hard drive) in combination, the performance and truly perfectly portable.
Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird thin and light design and superior performance as key factor in attracting users, after most of us have only seen a Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird slim appearance, did not experience it performance, Sohu digital at the press conference for the first time after you send this Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird comprehensive evaluation.
Design
S3 take in your hands, there is not a book, body material choice for a textured aluminum-magnesium alloy, and metal wire drawing process let the appearance of more visual impact, nor like the piano painting surface treatment products is as easy as leaving ugly fingerprint. Hale did not bring heavy metal, but gives one the feeling and flexible use.
Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird aspect sizes 323mmx218.5mm,1.31 thickness of as much as a dime coin's height. And because uses a LED screen, the thickness of the screen the same dime coin. This Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird is quite outstanding in weight control, for easy carrying convenience, Aspire S3 weighs only 1.35 kg.
We know now many thin notebook are is used of metal shell, such also can to fuselage is good of support, although is pursuit extreme thin, but Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird is no because thin and discard notebook should some security performance, magnesium aluminum alloy material of shell can given thin notebook more solid of support, because this often was for aircraft shell of material in quality Shang than up ABS engineering plastics or other metal to light many, and has better of flexible sexual and strength, Acer Aspire S3 hummingbirds also joined the plate between the shell of the screen, even when we press hard on the fuselage shell also did not find the screen there is a clear water wave phenomena. Also aluminum magnesium alloys have good thermal conductivity, can quickly take away heat from internal hardware, also precisely because these features so we see like Apple MacBook Air,ThinkPad X300 these top models are introduced this material.
Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird has only one color for our choice, has, however, you can choose a different configuration, of course, price is not the same, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird is divided into two versions. First listed of models carrying has cool duo i5-2467M processor, has 4GB memory, 320GB hard drive, used Intel nuclear core video card, Bluetooth 4 module, fourth generation du than family theater sound effects, battery life about for six hours, pre-installed genuine Windows 7 family senior version operating system, will in September end of listed, price 7,999 Yuan; then October listed of models built-in has 240GB solid state hard drive, weight more light, reached 1.33kg, price for 9,999 Yuan.
Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird brand LOGO design itself in the top middle of the fuselage, so this machine look more like a square card, is in line with business people's identity.
In the area of the screen, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird is used on a 13-inch Color-Shine (mirror) LED-backlit LCD panels, maximum resolution of 1366 x 768, screen for the standard 16:9 scale, we know that LED backlight display compared to conventional CCFL Backlight better, at the same time there are lot of advantages of thickness. This Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird screen thickness quite well, thickness and the two almost a dime coin thickness and CCFL-backlit screen thickness is generally up to 8 mm and above, so this is the Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird an important factor in light of the fuselage.
We can see from the actual screen display, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird display effect is very good, color restore true, colors are full and enriching, and Color-Shine (mirror) designed it to be without direct sunlight can also easily see the words on the screen. Just in terms of Visual angles, likely to be smaller, but this did not affect us.
On the design and other aspects of the screen, screen border for Acer Aspire S3 hummingbirds were the silver design, fuselage shell of metal materials can be a good protective screens and excellent heat conductivity of metal material engineering plastic can't match. Designed around the border of the rubber cushions or avoiding injury of screen and keyboard contacts. Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird in screen-top design a camera, user-friendly video applications.
And in hinge of design Shang, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird used has a integrated of highlight type hinge, such do of maximum benefits is can will screen of strength maximize, also is also because Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird used has wedge shaped of design, so Qian segment and fuselage side are exception of thin, only will interface design in fuselage Hou Department, and traditional of sinking type hinge will will barrier interface, so only used highlight type hinge has while to keep fuselage of overall beautiful, Integrated hinge not completely through the body. And benefit from the battery was placed in the body's internal, so the back-end can have enough room to design a hinge, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird screen maximum opening angle of up to 170 degrees.
Keyboard design, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird adopts the popular chocolate keyboard, only keyboard no backlight function, this seamless keyboard is beautiful island and easy and excellent multimedia performance, providing relatively large press coverage and wider key spacing, therefore can effectively reduce input error rate and good comfort entered. Many notebooks have adopted this design, the best feature is that key Cap greatly reduces chances of user misoperation, while between keys and keys are separated, so dust and foreign objects do not fall, and many beautiful long nails will not be because the card into the slot to when typing.
Operating area are not designed excessive keyboard shortcuts seem to need we achieved through Fn+F1~F12 key combination shortcuts, designed the Fn key and Ctrl key outside, more in line with the user's habits.
Above the keyboard, it is in the power switch and status led of the fuselage on the hinge design, namely: batteries and power supplies.
It is a pity that, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird keyboard will not, as I expect, design of backlighting, cost of and backlit keyboard is also quite expensive.
Below the keyboard, we can see Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird operating area almost half of its area to the Palm and the Palm and the body is one piece of sheet metal, this was designed to make the action more firmly, although ABS engineering plastic handle may be compared to aluminum material comparable to some of the metal, but have a matte process feel is also quite good.
Operation area also has is large of space left has touch plate, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird of touch plate and Palm supporting used has overall design, area spacious of touch plate and Palm supporting Zhijian no gap, such without worried about has dust and dirt entered, and one type of touch plate will around press also hidden in has touch plate within, Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird of touch plate reaction speed is sensitive, no any procrastination slow phenomenon. Only engineering plastic materials and but with matte surface makes the touchpad's feel is quite good, roll around and touchpad settings and screen control area.
This Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird indeed gives us excellent operation, first of all, its only 1.3 kg weight when I move it pretty easy, and powerful performance, I forgot this is a super thin and light notebook, and faster network connectivity and instant start function that I feel the need to throw away the tablet.
Acer Aspire S3 Hummingbird in addition to the ultimate slimmer fuselage, cooler airflow cooling technology is another major change. Fuselage ingenious of will high fever component arrangements in fuselage Hou side, and take this left out Palm supporting regional, cold air directly from keyboard gap entered, flows through processor, and chipset, part, directly from Hou side thermal window discharges, wind road short, efficiency high, effective avoid has heat stacked, elimination has side of heat flow, while also user a cool Palm supporting, even is placed in knee Shang using, also can get incomparable comfortable of using experience.
Acer Aspire performance of S3 is convincing enough, compared with the current mainstream configuration notebook wouldn't even weaker, and on the hard disk read speed, equipped with SSD hard disk Acer Aspire S3 substantial lead. Integrated testing, Acer Aspire S3 performance compared to mainstream notebook has not diminished, and even some aspects of performance is excellent, I believe Acer Aspire S3 will become Acer notebook computer development of important milestones in the history.
